Mind Quotes · Page 480

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

— Bernard Beckett

I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention…

— Robert Breault

Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds.

— James Dashner

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

— Swami Brahmananda

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

— Leonard Bishop

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

— T. E. Hulme

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.

— Temple Grandin

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.

— Mindy Kaling

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating…

— Richard Reti

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem,…

— Lloyd Jones

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

— Justin Martyr

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it…

— Joe Nichols

Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures…

— Carol P. Christ

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the…

— Warren E. Burger

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of…

— Ernest Dimnet

“I hate the honesty of the moring; the time before your consiousness switches on the light and gets rid of all the…

— Scarlett Thomas

“Trexler knew what he wanted, and what, in general, all men wanted; and he was glad, in a way, that it was…

— E.B. White

“The sense that discovering a way to breach this barrier would somehow “liberate” him was compelling – but he knew it was…

— Greg Egan

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own…

— Klaus Fuchs

Yashraj liked my writing style, and they had a concept in mind, so they hired me to write. That's how 'Luv Ka…

— Shenaz Treasury

I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do…

— Jon Evans

Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of…

— Anonymous

Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit…

— David Mitchell

Life has been messy for me, as it has for most everyone. I have come to the realization that challenging experiences break…

— Ping Fu

I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

— Demi Lovato

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

— Rita Mae Brown

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

— Stephen Fry

The mind is like a parachute; it doesnt work when its closed.

— Melchor Lim

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

— Swami Vivekananda

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

— Rajneesh

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not…

— Freeman Dyson

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

— Daniel Kahneman

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

— Peter Lombard

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

— Benjamin Haydon

The experience of happiness is a direct means of replenishing life energy and revitalizing the mind.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

— Publilius Syrus

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

— William Landay

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.

— Tenzin Palmo